In vitro isolation and identification of entomopathogenic fungus (Metarhizium pinghaense) and assessment of its virulence against whiteflies and aphids

• Haiyan Hu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Haiyan Hu, Yali Wang

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: huhaiyanzy@hotmail.com

  Affiliation Shandong Provincial Facility Horticulture Bioengineering Research Center, Weifang University of Science and Technology, Shouguang, Shandong, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0008-0619-683X

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• Yali Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Haiyan Hu, Yali Wang

  Roles Data curation, Software

  Affiliation Shandong Provincial Facility Horticulture Bioengineering Research Center, Weifang University of Science and Technology, Shouguang, Shandong, China

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• Chunyan Li,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation Shandong Provincial Facility Horticulture Bioengineering Research Center, Weifang University of Science and Technology, Shouguang, Shandong, China

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• Ranran Zhang,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Shandong Provincial Facility Horticulture Bioengineering Research Center, Weifang University of Science and Technology, Shouguang, Shandong, China

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• Fangyu Liu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Shandong Provincial Facility Horticulture Bioengineering Research Center, Weifang University of Science and Technology, Shouguang, Shandong, China

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• Xiaoan Sun

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Shandong Provincial Facility Horticulture Bioengineering Research Center, Weifang University of Science and Technology, Shouguang, Shandong, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1872-2584

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